Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Muttley@dastardlyhq.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: We have a new standard! Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 17:10:35 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:10:35 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="96451c9a48325b5d1183f33759cc6cc5"; logging-data="12272"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Opw7VGrNgZMNjrjhBgFyi" Cancel-Lock: sha1:/ANC0YT7Z4aThCJ3i8C7mZi/RSw= Bytes: 1628 On Fri, 03 Jan 2025 11:53:11 -0500 Sam gabbled: >A full throw specifier can also be validated for correctness, in the same >exact FUCKING way, at compile time. This would look like… You seem to be getting very worked up about it. I don't know about java but in C++ exceptions are just that - for exceptional circumstances. They're not supposed to be used as glorified return statements so should be rarely used anyway so frankly who gives a fuck about sigs?